India to open-source its Co-WIN national vaccination booking platform
(2021/06/30)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/06/30/india_open_sources_co_win_vaccination_platform/
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India has decided to open-source the Co-WIN platform it created to arrange bookings for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Doctor Ram Sewak Sharma, CEO of India’s National Health Authority, took to [1]YouTube to proclaim the nation is “ready to offer this Co-WIN platform as a public good” to the nations of the world.
“It is being given as sort of a gift,” he added.
[2]
In a [3]Tweet , Sharma said “Over 50 countries from across Central Asia, Latin America & Africa” have expressed interest in Co-Win.
[4]
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India’s government on Monday [6]announced that it had administered more COVID-19 vaccinations than any other nation, topping even the US total of 323 million jabs.
Co-WIN has been advanced as a system capable of operations at that scale and therefore suitable for any other nation.
[7]
As Doctor Sharma put it in his video: “This should help those countries with orderly and transparent vaccination programmes to run in their countries.”
[8]India acknowledges its vaccination-booking API excludes millions
[9]India uses controversial portal and API to add vaccination status info to Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app
[10]Indian businesses go on a server-buying spree, largely with HPE
[11]India tweaks telecoms laws to make itself an even more attractive offshoring destination
But Sharma didn’t mention that Co-Win has also been plagued by glitches, that its web portal crashed soon after launch, or that the APIs the service offers to third-party developers have resulted in [12]smartphone owners and the tech-savvy securing jabs before India’s less-fortunate population has a chance to register.
Nor did Co-WIN help India avoid a savage second wave of infections that saw the nation officially record over 30 million cases and almost 400,000 deaths — numbers that might significantly under-count actual infections and mortality rates. ®
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[6] https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1730809
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[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/india_cowin_api_onsite_bookings/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/02/aarogya_setu_vaccination_status/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/indian_storage_and_server_sales_q1_2021/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/24/india_osp_liberalisation/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/india_cowin_api_onsite_bookings/
[13] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Doctor Ram Sewak Sharma, CEO of India’s National Health Authority, took to [1]YouTube to proclaim the nation is “ready to offer this Co-WIN platform as a public good” to the nations of the world.
“It is being given as sort of a gift,” he added.
[2]
In a [3]Tweet , Sharma said “Over 50 countries from across Central Asia, Latin America & Africa” have expressed interest in Co-Win.
[4]
[5]
India’s government on Monday [6]announced that it had administered more COVID-19 vaccinations than any other nation, topping even the US total of 323 million jabs.
Co-WIN has been advanced as a system capable of operations at that scale and therefore suitable for any other nation.
[7]
As Doctor Sharma put it in his video: “This should help those countries with orderly and transparent vaccination programmes to run in their countries.”
[8]India acknowledges its vaccination-booking API excludes millions
[9]India uses controversial portal and API to add vaccination status info to Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app
[10]Indian businesses go on a server-buying spree, largely with HPE
[11]India tweaks telecoms laws to make itself an even more attractive offshoring destination
But Sharma didn’t mention that Co-Win has also been plagued by glitches, that its web portal crashed soon after launch, or that the APIs the service offers to third-party developers have resulted in [12]smartphone owners and the tech-savvy securing jabs before India’s less-fortunate population has a chance to register.
Nor did Co-WIN help India avoid a savage second wave of infections that saw the nation officially record over 30 million cases and almost 400,000 deaths — numbers that might significantly under-count actual infections and mortality rates. ®
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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9F6BQzc438
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[3] https://twitter.com/rssharma3/status/1409455639286345734
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YNvsXWUrq4Nks@76DHuEkAAAAI0&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
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[6] https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1730809
[7] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YNvsXWUrq4Nks@76DHuEkAAAAI0&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/india_cowin_api_onsite_bookings/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/02/aarogya_setu_vaccination_status/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/indian_storage_and_server_sales_q1_2021/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/24/india_osp_liberalisation/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/25/india_cowin_api_onsite_bookings/
[13] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/